Chapter 2471. To provide souvenir medallions for The Zebulon Montgomery Pike Monument Association
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CHAP. 2471.— An Act To provide souvenir medallions for The Zebulon Montgomery Pike Monument Association. May 17, 1906. [[H. R. 13783](/us/bill/34/hr/13783).] [[Public, No. 173](/us/pl/34/173).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Zebulon Montgomery Pike Monument Association.Souvenir medallions for, authorized. That for the purpose of Hiding in securing a proper and adequate celebration of the one hundredth anniversary of the southwest expedition of Lieutenant Zebulon Montgomery Pike and of the exploring of the territory of the upper Arkansas Valley, including portions of the States of Kansas and Colorado and of the Territory of New Mexico, said celebration to be held at some proper place in the immediate vicinity of Pike’s Peak, Colorado, in the year nineteen hundred and six. the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized to have prepared, in the United States Mint at Philadelphia, two dies for medallions, of such design and size as may be designated by The Zebulon Montgomery Pike Monument Association, a corporation organized under the laws of the State of Colorado, and approved by him; and he shall have made and struck, at some one of the mints of the United States, from these dies such number ofMaximum number. medallions of silver or bronze, not to exceed in the aggregate one hundred thousand, and in such quantities as may be requested by the Proceeds of sale.said monument association, the net proceeds from the sale of the said proposed medallions to be applied exclusively to the fund to defray the expenses of construction and erection of a monument to said Pike and of the exercises in dedication thereof under the auspices of the said monument association.
Sec. 2. Material.That the material from which said proposed medallions are to be made shall be furnished by the Secretary of the Treasury on or before the first day of August, nineteen hundred and six. in such amounts and in such proportions as the president of said The Zebulon Montgomery Pike Monument Association may, in writing request, Payment of cost.and the Secretary of the Treasury shall deliver said medallions, when made, to the President of said The Zebulon Montgomery Pike Monument Association upon the payment to the Secretary of the Treasury of an amount not less than the cost thereof.
Approved, May 17, 1906.